Week 1 Discussion

Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? The “Create Knowledge Check” feature was probably the most useful to me. It makes coming up with knowledge check questions much easier and faster, especially when you're trying to build multiple checks throughout a lesson.

Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why? The editing tool I found most valuable was the “Create Image Prompt” feature. It’s helpful because it can turn text from the course into a visual prompt. I often find that coming up with ideas for visuals in my Rise courses can be challenging, so having a tool that helps generate those ideas makes the process much easier.

Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why? Shorten is helpful when receiving large amount of text from my SMEs

Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? Definitely instant convert felt the most useful. Super helpful when testing out a variety of block formats.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?

As many have already said, text-to-speech. Very seemless experience. This will be incredibly useful when making updates to courses because I will not have to track down the SME to redo audio for a single sentence. 

1. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?

I am highly skeptical of these types of editing tools in general. I think language and how we convey messages is incredibly important so using AI for critical training may not be the best approach. 

The AI Assistant feature that felt the most intuitive and easy to use for me was the AI Audio option. I will definitely use this for voiceovers and to add some character to my scenarios.

I struggled a bit with  AI images at one point.  It's easy to use and generally does a great job, but it ignored some specific instructions, like: "tables should be in the background, at least 30 feet away."  I'm not sure it understands distance, or perhaps it doesn't deal well with "not" commands. It kept putting the tables right up front, which caused my relatively small scenario characters to look like skinny elves standing right in front of huge tables. 

The editing tool I found most useful was definitely the voiceover/narration ability in Storyline. It was very seamless in how it read the text, and I appreciated the library of voices available. 
I was surprised by how good the images generated came out, specifically the photo-realistic ones. I can remember what AI images looked like a year ago. It's improved by quite a bit.

1. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why? Since I work in Storyline more often than Rise, the AI Entrance Animation feature will be a huge time saver for me. Adding entrance animations to multiple elements can get pretty time-consuming, especially when building more interactive slides. Having AI help with that will make the process a lot faster and let me spend more time focusing on the instructional design side of things instead of the repetitive setup work.  I am also excited about the text to speech feature.  

   Right now we use WellSaid, and it can be a bit of a process. You have to create the audio there, download the file, and then upload it into the course. If something changes later, you have to go back into WellSaid, recreate the audio, and repeat the whole process again.

   Having AI audio built directly into the tool will be a huge time saver. It will make it much easier to generate and update narration without jumping between platforms.

2. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?

   One of the biggest challenges I ran into was getting the prompts just right to create the image I had in mind. If the prompt was too vague, the results were somewhat different from what I expected. It took some trial and error to figure out how detailed I needed to be when describing what I wanted in the image.

   I also noticed that even small changes in wording could completely change the result. Sometimes I had to try a few different versions of the same prompt before the AI generated what I was looking for. It definitely took a little experimenting to learn what worked best.

   Overall, it was a bit of a learning process, but once I started being more specific with my prompts, the results improved a lot.  My team and I are creating a "Prompt Library" to support us as we develop.

The voice generation in Articulate has worked very well for me and I wish I could use it more. Unfortunately, my courses tend to use a lot of video edited externally in Camtasia/Premiere, which makes using the Articulate generated voices less convenient. If there were a way to batch export many lines of generated audio out of Storyline I'd be able to ditch my 3rd party service. 

For some reason the image generation is not working at all for me. When I open that panel, it either does not open or presents me with a blank white space. Anyone else seeing this issue?

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities?
   Creating AI text-to-speech! I don't need to worry about creating my closed captioning and going through a really extensive rework process to get the timing just right. This will definitely save me so much time on projects.
   
   
   
2. Which editing tools (rewrite, shorten, change tone, etc.) did you find most valuable, and why?
   Rewrite is definitely a tool I will be using often. This tool helps you maintain the key principles while removing the fluff of the "nice to know" that so many SMEs
    feel is imperative to the learning. Outside of editing tools, I really like the 

   ability to have AI generate an image prompt for you so the right keywords are included from the start. I would have to say another win is the quiz and knowledge check creation capabilities. Keeps the questions from becoming too long-winded.

1. Which AI Assistant feature felt most intuitive or useful to you during the practice activities? They're all great and useful in their own ways, but the one that truly stood out to me the most was the ability to "Create an AI Image Prompt" based on selected course copy. For some reason, I overlooked that gem and didn't realize it was there until this cohort. Its ability to turn any header or copy you have into engaging and purposeful graphics that look like they took hours to create blew my mind. I especially think this feature is a fantastic way to jazz up flip cards. 
2. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted? Sometimes the images generated got a bit weird (e.g., generating letters that aren't actually words or related to the description you gave it). I had to figure out how to tweak the prompt to get closer to the result I wanted, even down to omitting certain words if needed.

1 - The "Instant convert" AI Assistant feature has been the most valuable for me. When I’m building in Rise, I usually already have SME‑approved content ready to go, so being able to instantly view that content in multiple presentation formats saves a significant amount of time. It helps me quickly compare options and choose the most engaging approach for the learner.

3 - The "Make shorter" editing tool has been especially helpful for my Storyline projects. Condensing content can be challenging, but keeping on‑screen text concise makes such a difference in reducing cognitive load and avoiding clutter. This tool streamlines the process and helps me maintain clean, learner‑friendly slides without sacrificing key information.